[Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers

Fri Oct 1 11:28:36 CEST 2010

2010/10/1 Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com>:
+> 2010/10/1 Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com>:
+>> On 1 October 2010 10:44, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:
+>>> Which extionsion a user wants to instaall should be left to the user's
+>>> decision. Make the install easy but do not install any extensions by
+>>> default. I've never used those extensions, except the developper bar.
+>>> Somebody told me to install Adblock and whatever, I did and FF became
+>>> unstable but not one second faster.
+>>> Maybe because I do not visit many sites with large ads and all that
+>>> bling-bling stuff.
+>>>
+>>> Anyhow, as a rule do not add any stuff by default that the user ought
+>>> to decide for himself, this is not Windows. We should not tell the
+>>> user what he wants to do.
+>>
+>> Then we shouldn't install neither firefox nor konqueror at all since
+>> that's a choice that the user ought to decide for himself...
+>
+> C'mon, a browser is not the same as a browser extension. Of course
+> there must be defaults. But installing browser extensions by default
+> is too much "default" IMHO. Same as with mail clients. You should set
+> a mail client by default but you should not add any extensions to this
+> client by default.
+>
+> wobo
+>
+Please do not make any extension as default. Even do not paxckage
+extensions. A user should decide which extension he/she uses. Also, i
+don't understand why extensions packaged. Day by day extensions
+updated on upstream. So, packages left behind current versions.
+
+Btw, i noticed that Firefox installed in
+/usr/share/firefox-release-number. I don't know how buildsystem works
+but when ff updated all extensions must be updated for new install
+dir. Doesn't this behaviour brings extra workload?
+